Disable autoplay for google ads

[Raunak Yadav]

Hi Team,

We have an autoplay control in our app. We want that setting to be honored by the google ads (banner and native video) too. Is there a control for autoplay enable/disable via google ad manager Android sdk?

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Raunak,

Could you kindly elaborate your use case? Is your app contains videos and you want to auto play it after the ads show?

Regards,

Teejay Wennie Mobile Ads SDK Team

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[Raunak Yadav]

Hi Teejay,

In our app we show a list of videos that can autoplay. We have added google native video ads in this list at certain intervals. Now we have an app setting to disable autoplay for our video cards. But google native ads start autoplaying when they come into view. We want to disable autoplay for them as well based on our setting. 

I can only see the option startMuted in VideoAdOptions. Is there any way to convey the autoplay setting to the sdk?

[Raunak Yadav]

Hi Teejay,

Business usecase for providing autoplay setting for google ads is that many users complain of videos autoplaying and hence draining network data. We are giving the users a preference where they can choose autoplay on versus click-to-play for our content videos. If google ads will support the same, it will help us honour user expectation.

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Hi Raunak,

Thank you for getting back to us.

With regard to your use case, I'm afraid that you can only control the ad state if it's a reserved native ads using this guide. With that, could you kindly share your business use case (or benefit) for the said feature/functionality? Once provided, I'll be raising this to the team as a feature request.

Regards,


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Teejay Wennie
Mobile Ads SDK Team
 

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[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Raunak,

Thank you for providing your use case. Let me share this to the rest of the team to further check if this is possible to add as feature in video ads. You may keep an eye to our blog for any future updates on this.

Regards,

Princess Pamela Mobile Ads SDK Team

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